How Many Websites Are There on the Internet?

There are 346,004,403 websites are there on the internet as of June 2011. Apache was the only major web server software to gain hostnames this month, with growth of 21M and nearly 2.2 percentage points of market share. The largest growth was seen at OVH, which gained more than 8.6M Apache hostnames. Large growth was also seen at Softlayer (5.6M), AmeriNOC (2.5M) and Hanaro Telecom (1.3M).

Among the other server vendors, Microsoft saw the largest loss with 1.4M fewer hostnames than in May. The majority of this loss was caused by VPLS losing nearly 1.5M hostnames.

28 responses to “How Many Websites Are There on the Internet?”

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There are 7 Billion people on the earth now. 7 Billion is 1000 times 7 Million. 1 million is 10 Lakhs. Anyway, 7 Billion is 700 Crores. Let’s just assume that there is 1 website for every 100 people on earth (intelligent guess?). Therefore, there should be 7 Crore websites in the world. How’s that analysis?

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I wonder what they did to measure the the exact number of websites on the internet. It’s a well known fact that search engines only index a very small percentage of sites. Does it include hidden networks such as onionland and freenet?

Hi.. I bought a Domain from netfirms and after a short period I check that on alexa it was at 27,827,285 ,knowing that I remain website untouched only I installed Joomla script without any promotion, So I think 346,004,403 Number is Exaggerated.

I can’t believe how fast the internet is growing. I have it expand so rapidly in just the last 2 years, and I am amazed by the growth of online company and how they manage to outperform companies that remain offline. With all these new sites I wonder what will be the new extention for business sites (Example .com, .biz)

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So how many websites are created each day.This is a big number.But times are changing and everyone is spending time on the internet than ever before.So who is making all these sites and which region has the most websites?

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